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Chastised & Locked Down<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 24 March 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you voted for Boris in the recent General Election, you should congratulate yourself; if, conversely, you voted for Labour and instead you got Boris Johnson, thank your lucky stars that you did not get what you wished for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boris UK Lockdown Necessary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Even the opposition is having to admit that the crisis we are facing has placed the government in an unprecedented situation and that this is no time for pitting civil liberties against the need for real action. Nobody knows exactly how to proceed as there is no blueprint for success; nobody knows how things will pan out; the game is ongoing and difficult decisions have to be made, as and when they are necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boris Johnson has achieved something quite extraordinary and unequivocally necessary today: he has put the country on lockdown. Considering the flagrant and banal way in which thousands of Brits ignored advice to distance themselves<\/a> from each other, the prime minister had little option but to instigate these measures. And whilst most rational folk will conclude that its worth a try, we can only imagine ~ and sigh with relief that we only have to imagine ~ how much worse it all would be if Labour were in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some evidence of what I am hinting at emerges in a BBC\narticle about the 329-page emergency bill that was passed in the House of\nCommons today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Labour believed unprecedented measures were now needed\nto “save lives and protect our communities”, he said the measures\nwould “chill every Liberal in the House” and it only offered its\nsupport with a “heavy heart”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right, well turn the heating up, lighten up and let\u2019s get on with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2020 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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